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1 Rough notes of a meeting at 7 Victoria Terrace
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2 8 November 2024
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3 Henry S. Thompson
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5 Present: Rachel Fitzgerald (RF), Madeleine Harding (MH), Katrina
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6 McCrea (KM), John Phillips (JP), Majk Stokes (MS), Henry Thompson (HT)
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8 KM welcomed us to a meeting to support Majk Stokes after the outcome
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9 of the appointment process.
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12 KM invited MS to share how he was feeling.
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14 MS: Assistant Manager for 12 years, and Acting Manager for 4 months,
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15 promotion was the obvious next step, so very disappointed.
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17 MS: 'New perspective?' Discounts all the hard work and experience,
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18 feels like this counted against me instead of being a positive
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20 MS: Still quite raw.
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22 MS: Long delay in reply to my email at the time was not appreciated.
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24 MS: Signalled interest in the job at the beginning of the summer, wasn't
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25 given any help at all.
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29 KM: Full and open procedure, equal treatment: In the end panel choose
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30 more depth and breadth of experience in person management and venue
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33 KM: Giving feedback even now, panel hopes is useful going forewords.
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35 KM: Personal feedback should have happened right away, you were owed that,
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36 and the panel apologises.
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38 RF: Absence of Majk's line manager meant the person normally responsible
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39 for helping him wasn't there, and MC failed to step in and do that
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42 HT: As MC Convenor, my responsibiity, and I apologise for failing at
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45 JP: New perspective? Something the panel were looking for?
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47 KM: No, not going in, it was something that emerged in the interview
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48 process. Coming into a new situation allows new ideas. _But_ new
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49 perspective wasn't the starting point, or the primary point.
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51 KM: MS & Beth Clarke (BC) interviewed very well, but so did the other
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52 candidates. We had a very hard time making the decision.
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54 MS: still struggling to see why he and BC couldn't have done this
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57 MS: And it now looks like I'm being pushed back to Ass't Mgr and showing
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58 how everything works, that's hard to take. At the very least I should
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59 continue to be paid at the higher rate
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61 RF: Delay in panel response was bad, but it was _very_ hard to reply
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62 in writing. Agreed that retaining Acting Manager pay for the first
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63 month is a reasonable request.
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65 KM: Looking Forward
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67 MS: The fact that Miranda changed to my not being paid for lunch break
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70 MS: I would like to go down to a two-day week. Maybe after three
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71 months of helping new managers settle in? Start in January would be
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74 MS: I'd like to have a more environmental or creative focus:
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75 * recycling/energy efficiency aspect perhaps
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76 * C-venues were a mess, they don't learn from their mistakes,
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77 Greenside would have been a better bet, make my job more about
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78 planning for and managing "Venue 40", that would be much more
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79 satisfying. That's obviously a whole conversation to be had.
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81 MS: So having a project, taking the lead on something, for example V40 or
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82 environmental, that would be great.
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84 RF: New managers would be really excited to hear that.
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86 RF: Easy to lose sight of the environmental stuff, so having someone
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87 actually pushing that on staff will be good. Also this is a great time
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88 to get that going.
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90 RF: Sabbatical? Certainly possible.
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94 MS: Not the historical connection with the Meeting that I had, so not
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95 the same emotional investment. Mostly angry on Majk's behalf. Would
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98 MS: Not here today because this meeting is for Majk, looking at other
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103 KM: Wrapping up:
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111 * Continue at current Acting Manager pay rate during induction
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113 * Then go down to 2 days
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117 MC will get back to MS on this ASAP.
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119 MS will let S&A know that he applied for the job, but has no animus
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